Metrohm tiamo 1.0 Manual - Manual (Page 74)

50 General program functions
Functions - Text
TextPosition
Syntax
y = TextPosition(Text ; Sample text)
Returns the Index that indicates at which position the Sample text first oc-
curs in the Text . The numbering of the index starts at 1!
Parameter
Text
The parameter can either be entered directly or as a Variable of the type
Text , Number or Date/Time .
Sample text
The parameter can either be entered directly or as a Variable of the type
Text , Number or Date/Time . If the types of the two parameters are not identi-
cal then the type Sample text will always be converted to Text (see Func-
tions - type conversion). If the Sample text is not contained in the Text then
" invalid " will be returned.
Note
Entries of the type
Number are always given with one decimal place.
Example: TextPosition("12345";3) = invalid , as before the operation the 3 is con-
verted to 3.0 and this is not contained in the text.
Examples
TextPosition("Citric acid";"acidic") = 9, from the index number 9 the word
" acidic " occurs in the text
TextPosition("Citric acid";"Acidic") = invalid , the word " Acidic " (with a capital
letter) does not occur in the text
TextPosition("Citric acid";"salt") = invalid , the word " salt " does not occur in
the text
TextPosition(Time(2004;05;05);"5") = 7
TextPosition(3362.14;"6") = 3
TextPosition('MV.ID2';"Carbonate") = index, in which the word part " Carbon-
ate " first starts in ID2
SubText
Syntax
y = SubText(Text ; Position ; Length)
Returns that text part from Text that starts at the index Position and has the
length Length .
Parameter
Text
The parameter can either be entered directly as text or as a Variable of
the type Text . If the parameter does not correspond to the expected type
then it will be automatically converted to it (see Type conversion "Number-
ToText" or "TimeToText"). If this type conversion is not possible then the re-
sult of this operation will be returned as "
invalid ".